The kingdom of God, which Jesus came to inaugurate, is meant to create an alternate reality in this world, and ultimately to transform the kingdoms o….

Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change..

Faith reminds us that change is always possible..

Anyone can love peace, but Jesus didn't say, "Blessed are the peace-lovers." He says �peacemakers.� He is referring to a life vocation, not a hobby o….

We can find common ground only by moving to higher ground..

At times I think the truest image of God today is a black inner-city grandmother in the United States or a mother of the disappeared in Argentina or ….

Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed..

The Christian doctrine is one that is both about individual spirituality and a parallel commitment to social justice..

You can't be evangelical and associate yourself with Jesus and what he says about the poor and just have no other domestic concerns than tax cuts for….

The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue..

You change society by changing the wind. Change the wind, transform the debate, recast the discussion, alter the context in which political discussio….

I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South….

I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, ….

Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster..

Our calling is not only to pull people out of the river, but to go upstream to find out what or who is pushing them in..

Two of the greatest hungers in our world today are the hunger for spirituality and the hunger for social change. The connection between the two is th….

But when we place God on our side of things, that we are now ridding the world of evil - that's very dangerous, that one nation has this role to rid ….

The world will not change until we do.

But what does it mean to be on God's side? I believe it starts with focusing on the common good - not just in politics, but in all the decisions we m….

To dig our heels in and say no to a present madness is a good thing, but to walk a new path and say yes is a better thing..

Last year, Americans spent $450 billion on Christmas. Clean water for the whole world, including every poor person on the planet would cost about $20….